Graduate with teamwork and leadership skills, as well as the commercial awareness needed to embark on a career in the world of film, theatre or live performance.
During your first year on our costume design degree course, you’ll be introduced to the practical skills and knowledge underpinning both design and production. Over a series of projects, you’ll learn the fundamental processes involved in costume design, from designing around scripts and storylines, through to creating the end product.
In your second year, you’ll explore what it’s like to work in the industry through live projects and work placement opportunities. As well as developing your hands-on skills, you’ll also gain valuable first-hand industry experience, working alongside experienced costume and wardrobe professionals.
Your final year will begin with a module that will get you up-to-speed and ready to tackle your final major design project. Alongside this, you’ll expand your research skills and learn how to develop a personal design brief to use as the basis of your final major project.
This course is designed to build on HND or Foundation Degree qualifications in music. It combines degree-level theoretical studies with further training in musical performance, musicology, creative sound and participatory practice. The result is a mix of academic rigour and practical skills that makes our Music course a stimulating journey of discovery, reflection and achievement.
Why us?
- Top up an HND or foundation degree to a full honours degree, studying with award-winning lecturers
- Pursue your passion through independent music study with either a practical or theoretical focus
- Opportunities to participate in musical theatre projects and choir performances and collaborate with dance, drama and media students
- Study in a vibrant city music scene with new arts, culture and music venue investment
- Exceptional menu of modules, ranging from musicology and creative sound to community/education work and musical multimedia
- Aspiring teachers can gain experience of working as a music facilitator in educational and community settings
This course is offered by North East dance organisation, Dance City, in partnership with the University of Sunderland.
Our unique course has been designed by leading dance professionals to prepare you for a varied and multi-faceted career, ensuring you are able to thrive in a range of roles and settings within the dance sector and beyond.
The course begins and ends in the studio, and you’ll be dancing from morning to evening most of the time. It is a challenging course that will require much of you physically, socially, and creatively across the three years of practice and study. We are committed to offering a foundation of support and care to enable you to make to the most of this opportunity.
Dance City graduates are top-class performers, teachers, choreographers, producers, and cultural managers. We have mapped our graduates into more than 50 creative career paths so far. We are proud to be empowering the next generation of dance professionals and invite you to create your dance future.
This is a four-year version of our popular BA (Hons) Performing Arts course, with an integrated foundation year. Learn to be a versatile performing artist. Personalise your studies to suit your evolving interests and aspirations. Become a confident, experienced, industry ready professional.
Study in a multidisciplinary way – which you will know is reflective of the industry. Experiment with new things, create a personal pathway with a focus on dance, drama or musical theatre or a mix of all three. Personalise your studies to suit your evolving interests and aspirations. Build the necessary skills to succeed in higher education, recognise your own strengths and idiosyncrasies and establish yourself as an employable practitioner.
Whether you wish to dance, act, devise, choreograph, teach or facilitate, this course will give you the skills, techniques, confidence and experience to be industry ready. You will develop as a creative and versatile individual; we want you to graduate with the best opportunities possible that will prepare you for a successful career in the performing arts world.
BA (Hons) Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Performance teaches the specialist skills to enter the performance industry working as a make-up / prosthetics artist as well as hair / wig dresser and maker.
Why choose this course at London College of Fashion
Where graduates have gone on to work: graduates have worked on film productions, such as Harry Potter and War Horse, TV productions including Luther and The Hour and in West End and globally touring theatre productions.
Industry standard facilities and equipment: the course has dedicated rooms for sculpting, plaster casting and moulding. Students will also have access to fiberglass, silicone, spray and extraction rooms, a wig making room and specialized ovens and make-up and prosthetics application rooms.
Industry links: aided by its London location, the course has strong relationships with the industry, with studios and theatres being easily accessible. Previous work experience opportunities have included The English National Opera and Pinewood Studios.
Creative Direction for Fashion challenges the intersection between fashion, communication and divergent practices. Projects developed on this course seek to drive meaningful change in the discipline through informed, robust propositions with compelling creative vision, communication design, strategy and criticality at their core.
Why choose this course at London College of Fashion:
Skill building: you will develop proficient multidisciplinary skills within communication design, which will provide a wide range of graduate opportunities including: art director, trends and innovation researcher, experience designer, producer. Students will also build the range of skills needed to be proficient freelancers.
Industry links: you will have exposure to industry practitioners and have the opportunity to respond to knowledge exchange briefs. Past projects have included collaborations with H&M, the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, the Hyman Archive and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Placement opportunity: in your second year on the course you have the opportunity to do an integrated work placement as part of your study.
Emerging technologies: This unique course gives students the opportunity to engage with emerging digital technologies and identify innovative opportunities for how they can be used within the fashion media and communication industry.
BA (Hons) Costume for Performance offers a holistic approach to the study of costume. This course is for students who are interested in designing and making. This comprises physical and digital ways of designing and creating for live theatre, dance, film, and television, as well as more specialised performances.
We nurture every student’s distinctive voice, teaching them how to embrace challenge and how to lead their professional field with cutting-edge approaches across all channels: live, broadcast, digital, interactive, experiential and experimental. Through specialist research and collaborative work, we empower our students to think differently by combining traditional and digital techniques in design and costume-making that result in creative and sustainable practices that improve the way we work and live.
Why choose this course at London College of Fashion:
Students learn from professionals actively working in Film, TV and live performance.
The course gives you the advantage to collaborate with students from related disciplines like 3D effects and Hair
and Makeup.
Students have the opportunity to work on industry-related projects within the course.
Learning occurs in a collaborative and safe environment.
The course prepares students to integrate intellectual demands within the specialized design and the
craft skills required for the creation of original costumes.
BA (Hons) 3D Effects for Performance and Fashion will prepare you for a career in a variety of creative roles for TV, film, performance and fashion.
You will acquire specialised design and craft skills for a performance context. This course teaches design for theatre, film, music and television, as well as more specialised performances, such as circus and carnival. The course incorporates teaching by industry practitioners, professional workshops and work placement opportunities.
Varied career options – the course provides a broad overview of 3D Effects which gives graduates a wide choice of career options including: film, television, art installations and fashion.
Where graduates have gone on to work – previous graduates have found employment with the National Theatre, English National Opera, Madame Tussauds and on many film and television productions including Game of Thrones, Netflix’s Dark Crystal, Justice League, Star Wars and Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant.
Facilities – students will be given access to excellent, industry-standard facilities.
From the start, you will be immersed in an exciting programme of discovery. You’ll explore the role of art and design in a modern society and, in particular, the role of costume design in the performing arts. The performance Costume programme offers specialist training in both Costume Design and Making for stage and screen. You will learn to respond to text, music and performance concepts and to develop designs for costume that are simultaneously innovative and supportive of the performer’s role. You will develop a repertoire of core skills, ranging from research, design for character, textiles, millinery, computer skills and illustration to pattern cutting and costume construction.
Who should study the BA (Hons) in Performance Costume?
Anyone with a passion for costume and a strong interest in the performing arts. If you have found yourself excited by costume in theatre, film, opera, musicals or dance, and longed to be involved in the creation of memorable and exciting images through costume, then this course is for you.
Join a vibrant creative community
Within ECA, you’ll find yourself at the heart of a dynamic community. You’ll be ideally placed to study the interaction between costume and the other arts, such as fashion, textiles, jewellery, film, animation, illustration, and also within the many courses in the wider University. You will take part in live productions in ECA and have the opportunity to undertake a wide range of work experience outside of the University.
Creative thinkers
You’ll be supported by academic staff and practitioners from the world of costume design. All will have specialist skills which will add to the range of your knowledge. And during your studies, you’ll have the chance to attend guest lectures from a range of inspirational creative designers.
